Xref: utzoo sci.space:31893 sci.skeptic:11970 Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.skeptic Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ais.org!tony From: tony@ais.org (Tony Poole) Subject: Re: anti-gravity? Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 21:22:21 GMT Organization: UMCC Message-ID: References: <1991Jun18.004625.156@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil> bkottmann@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil (Brett Kottmann) writes: > A researcher in Scotland has developed a device that harnesses >gyroscopic energy to lift a device against gravity--antigravity for all intents >and purposes. > The inventor has built several machines with the following >configuration: > [] - small engine to power flywheels > ------ > | | - flywheels mounted so that their spin up-down > ---- - bottom of apparatus (central rod about which flywheels >would rotate if allowed) > In demonstrations, the apparatus lifts against gravity (it is balanced >beforehand with an equal weight via balance arm). > The inventor claims that the tendency for the flywheel arms to move >outward (centrifigal force) is greater than the force trying to move the >flywheels inward. > Thus the machine "pushes" against gravity. Hmmmmm....... Seems to me those same flywheels that "push" against gravity will work with gravity at 180 degrees flywheel rotation. Of course, if you had some sort of weight that were extended out at a bigger radius on the downward rotation and retracted on the upward... Nah...that's too easy..... You sure maybe he not powering it with cold fusion from a dishpan?? :-)